Chapter 90 - Konosuba Side Part 2.

The sun was shining brightly on a large green field. The wind was blowing gently on the grass as the weather was perfect to relax.

This greenfield was next to a peaceful town, which reflected the atmosphere perfectly.

Some monsters and people were seen once in a while on this greenfield, but this didn't destroy the calm.

All in all, this was a very peaceful and calm day that couldn't go wrong.

*BOOM!!!*

People, or better say, adventurers, were doing their own thing from quests to adventures. Completely normal. They didn't even care about the explosion near them.

*BOOOOM!!!*

The monsters were running around on the field as the earthquakes didn't bother them… Everything was peaceful.

*BOOOOOM!!!*

Lightning rushed to the sky as it illuminated the surrounding, but no one cared because… They are used to it!!!.

On the west side of Axel town, the atmosphere was boiling as two behemoths were standing in front of each other.

A huge old man was standing face to face with who might be the mightiest enemy he met in this world… A giant frog.

"We meet again" Whitebeard said with a serious voice as he glanced at this formidable enemy.

"Ribbit…" The frog replied as he tilted his head because, in all his life as a frog, he never saw this scary-looking old man.

However, Whitebeard didn't wait as he clenched his fist before punching the frog to its belly.

*BOOOM!!*

An earthquake hit the place as the ground around Whitebeard cracked, but all that power only managed to push the frog on step back.

"Hm…" Releasing a breath, Whitebeard squinted his eyes as he raised his fist again. He'd never admit defeat to a frog!!.

During this week, he found these opponents. They were strong and able to stop his fist without taking damage, but then, he learned that these frogs are a small fry. Whitebeard almost caused a gigantic earthquake that day.

So, in the name of Whitebeard, he swore that he'll defeat these frogs with only his fist! No haki or devil fruit, only his fist alone!.

"Ribbit??" The giant frog tilted his head while looking at Whitebeard and his fighting spirit.

However, for the Whitebeard, who the blood rushed to his head, all he could see in that frog's action was 'Is this all what you got?'.

A vein appeared on Whitebeard's head before he punched the frog again.

Meanwhile, a group of people was looking at the legendary battle between Whitebeard and the frog with blank looks on their faces.

"Hmph! Even this goddess wasn't able to defeat those monsters with her God Blow! Do you think you can surpass me?" Aqua crossed her arms as she had a proud look on her face while looking at Whitebeard.

{Do you think this is something to be proud of as a goddess?} Kazuma, Kaguya, Misaka stared at Aqua with blank faces as they were speechless about the situation.

"How sad, it seems that I, Kaguya Houraisan, need to show you how this is done" Kaguya said as she was holding Mudkip in her arms before floating to another frog.

"First, you need to take advantage of the surprise element" Kaguya raised Mudkip in her arms before she aimed at the frog.

"These are frogs, right? A small fry, right?" Kazuma looked at this careful planning with a face that was losing hope in the world.

However, he'll lose more hope if he saw Misaka shivering when looking at the frogs as she also had a serious face.

"NOW!!" Kaguya said as she threw Mudkip towards the frog before she said "Mudkip, use Hydro Pump!"

"Mudkip!" Mudkip cried before he charged something in his mouth and shot a huge volume of water at the frog.

The frog was blasted by a huge volume of water launched under great pressure from Mudkip mouth. Because of the water, the area became muddy as Mudkip landed near the frog.

"Use Mud-Slap on its eyes!" Kaguya gave another instruction as Mudkip waved with his fin and shot some mud from the ground.

The frog was trying to stand up, but the damage from the water weakened him a lot as he took the mud to the face and lost his vision.

"End it! Aqua Tail!" Kaguya didn't even finish her words as Mudkip jumped above the frog as his fin was flashing blue before water started rotating on it.

The frog didn't even raise his head as Mudkip hit him with his fin that carried a raging wave of water.

*BOOOOM!!*

The frog head was smashed to the ground before Mudkip did a flip and landed on it calmly.

"Hmph! Did you see it? This is how yo-..." However, Kaguya didn't finish her words because…

"Mud-..." Mudkip was about to say his pokemon's cry before the frog raised his head suddenly and threw him in the air.

"-Kip" Mudkip finished his cry as the frog… Swallowed him in front of everyone.

"MUDKIP!!!!!" Kaguya screamed like a certain Joestar before she rushed to the frog with an energy bomb in her hand.

"...." Kazuma's face became like Saitama as he couldn't think from the depth of his mind of a word to say about this.

Looking to his left, he saw Misaka and all the burned frogs next to her, but that didn't make him feel better because he saw what happened to her three days ago.

It's been a week since the group arrived in this world. Everything was normal… Yeah, right. Nothing was normal at all!

After getting cards and helping to explain Whitebeard's height with some spells from Kaguya and his natural charm.

Kazuma just said to Aqua that these are other worlds people came to save the world at the request of another god(World's wills). Aqua was suspicious for 3 seconds before her attention was distracted by Kazuma saying to her ear 'With this, you can return faster'.

After 'explaining' to Aqua, the group got their adventurers cards and the chaos started.

Every day, every single day, an explosion or an earthquake happened in Axel town. Kazuma already lost hope in this group from the moment when he saw Whitebeard swear to defeat frogs with his fists.

Then things got better… They didn't. The second troublemaker arrived as Leone did what she knew the best. Tricking everyone in Axel one way or another as Kazuma was praying to Eris every day for her to not get caught because she'll drag him into another debt!.

After that, Misaka's frog accident happened on the fourth day here.

(Flashback three days ago)

"Hm? Are these really monsters?" Misaka looked at the frogs as she couldn't attack them for some reason.

"Of course, they are monsters" Aqua was far away from Misaka as she was screaming at her.

"But, but… They look like a Gekota…" Misaka couldn't bring herself to kill these frogs as she looked them in the eyes.

"Ribbit?" The frog tilted his head as Misaka did the same before she changed the direction and the frog also did.

Both of them stared at each other for a while as Misaka smiled and looked at Aqua.

"Eh? They aren't really ba-..." Misaka didn't finish her words as the frog bit her before raising his head and trying to swallow her.

The lightning struck Axel's field that day more than it ever did in the whole history of the town as Misaka kept whispering 'They are not Gekota' on that day.

(Flash back end)

After that, Misaka will kill any frog when they enter a 10 meters radius around her, which makes her the haven to Aqua when they go to the fields.

"*Sigh*..." Kazuma sighed as he facepalmed himself while Aqua tilted her head and said " What happened to you?"

"I'm giving up on this world and this team…" Kazuma said with a monotone way as he removed his hand.

"Eh? What are you saying, you know that you can count on this goddess!" Aqua felt offended as she puffed her c.h.e.s.t and stared at Kazuma.

"Huh?" Kazuma was surprised by this statement before he said " Count on someone who can barely count?"

"Who do you think I am?" Aqua raised her fist, which made Kazuma sigh and say " That's right. You're a goddess, after all"

"Yeah, you can count on me" Aqua said with a smile, which made Kazuma smile a little, even if that was more like a helpless smile.

However, it didn't last long because Aqua slipped on a puddle from Mudkip's Hydro Pump.

Kazuma was more speechless now as he sighed before looking at Kaguya, who saved Mudkip from the frog and said " I'm going back to the guild. Who wants to come with me?"

"Me, I'm going back now" Misaka looked at the frogs as she didn't have any motivation to stay here.

"I'm coming back too" Kaguya cleaned Mudkip with her spells before she floated away.

"I'm staying here… I've something to do" Whitebeard said with a serious voice while staring at the three frogs in front of him.

Kazuma looked at Whitebeard's back as he felt that was cool, but then, he saw who was his opponent as he facepalmed himself… Again.

"Hey, wait for me!!" Aqua stood up from the ground as she rushed after the group.

After a walk in Axel, the group reached the guild building and entered inside. The guild is still the same with its atmosphere and adventurers, but there was something new.

"Cheers!!" Leone raised her cup in the air as the adventurers around also did the same "CHEERS!!!"

There was a party going on in the guild as Leone was the center and all the adventurers were partying.

This situation made Kazuma squint his eyes again as this trouble maker, even if he has to admire her social skills.

Leone didn't take more than a week to know the adventurers around and have connections to Axel's guild… How terrifying, but this is an information-gathering assassin.

"Ah, hello!!" Leone waved with her hand when she saw Kaguya and the others before walking towards them.

"How was it?" Leone asked about the hunt in the fields as she met with Kazuma's blank eyes, which made her say " Good… I hope"

"It was horrible!" Everyone said simultaneously as it made Leone sweat a little before she said " As usual, huh?"

"Enough with this, did you find something?" Kaguya hugged the scared Mudkip in her arms as she asked Leone.

"Did I find something?" Leone sat down on one of the chair before she said " I find something, but nothing at the same time"

"No one knows those three guys. I tried to get information from the guild, but those guys weren't adventurers at all" Leone shook her head in disappointment.

Yesterday, Whitebeard met those three guys, who screamed his name before they disappeared. The group didn't know who they were, but according to what happened to Leo, they guessed their identity as players.

"I see… We're back to the zero point, huh" Kazuma said as he saw Aqua going to the quest board.

"Not exactly, we still have the information about the stick and the mission changed" Misaka said while backing away a little because of the alcohol smell.

"According to my knowledge(Culture) and that mission, I think that stick is probably something to tie this world to the multiverse space" Kaguya said her guess as it get a nod from everyone.

"I don't want to say it, but that's the most likely thing to happen" Kazuma sighed because now, his world might face some sort of an invasion, which is worse than the demon king.

"I'll keep an eye if something big happens. They won't stay silent all the time, right?" Leone winked at the group before she went back to the party.

"I'm going to order something" Kazuma dragged himself away to a table as sat down before Aqua came and told him about her team recruitment disappearing.

He heard about that recruitment as he didn't believe that anyone in his right mind would choose to accept it.

"Hey, lower the bar a little. Advance class only is asking too much" Kazuma leaned his head on his hand as he looked at Aqua.

He isn't against the idea of making his team here because he knows that the Chat team will leave eventually, so he needs his team here.

However, with Aqua's 'amazing' recruitment and his 'cursed' sword effect, he doesn't think that anyone will join them.

"But… But…" Aqua teared up a little as she was stubborn about her recruitment plan.

Kazuma wanted to convince her, but then he heard a voice from behind him.

"I happened to notice your recruitment poster" a girl with a long staff and a pointed hat said as Kazuma turned around and looked at her.

The girl was small and wore an eyepatch on her left eye. She had black hair and red eyes as she looked at Kazuma and Aqua.

Kaguya, who was thinking about the revenge plan against frogs with Misaka, saw this and took some popcorn from her sleeves.

"That we would meet is a fate chosen by the world itself" The girl hasn't spoken more than three lines and Kazuma felt this is so chunni.

"I've anxiously awaited the arrival of those such as yourselves" Putting a pose with her hand the girls waved before she said "My name is Megumin! My calling is that of an archwizard, the one that commands the explosion magic, the strongest of all offensive magic!"

"Um… Are you okay?" Kazuma tried to ask, but Megumin continued her introduction and said something about power and abyss, which made Kazuma and Kaguya cringe a little because it was chunni!.

"Are you making fun of us?" Kazuma looked at Megumin with a blank gaze.

"N-no!" Megumin retorted immediately.

"Eh? Are you a crimson demon?" Aqua said when she noticed Megumin's eyes.

"Yes!" Megumin started another introduction as it made Kazuma and Aqua stare blankly at her because she fell from hunger before asking about food.

"I don't mind treating you, but what with the eyepatch? If you're injured, why not have her to heal you" Kazuma pointed at Aqua and said " Her magic might prove to be useful for once"

"What was that?!" Aqua snapped at Kazuma.

Megumin stood up slowly as she said something about a seal before stating that the patch is only there because it's cool, which made Kazuma grab her from the eyepatch as she was screaming.

Kaguya was eating popcorn while watching the show before she heard Misaka's voice " Hey, Kaguya-san. Do you think this mission is alright?"

"Why do you ask?" Kaguya's popcorn was snatched by Mudkip as he poured it into his mouth.

"This mission sounds more complicated and difficult, even Leo seemed to have it hard" Misaka said as Kaguya tilted her head and said "Hard? That overpowered cheater? Tell me something else"

"But didn't you hear him? About being edgy and all" Misaka said with some worry as it made Kaguya laugh.

"What is so funny?!" Misaka's eyebrow twitched because of Kaguya's sudden laugh.

"You actually believed that it's bad. He's just joking while going with the flow. Also, with his power, it was just a matter of time before showing some edginess" Kaguya wiped the tears from her eye before she said " Yeah, I'm also looking at you!"

"Eh?" Misaka was surprised because Kaguya pointed at her.

"There's nothing that can bring edginess more than a power than come from someone's physiology and inner mind like your Espers' personal reality" Kaguya said with a serious face as it made Misaka speechless.

"Are you telling me that Leo's power came from his mind?" Misaka knows about how trauma can affect the personal reality of an Esper, but she never experienced something like that.

"Of course, it did. Even in his speech of beginning and end" Kaguya sighed for a moment before she said " He wanted to understand what happened to his friend, so he was able to see the flaws. He thought that his ignorance was a reason for that, so he counted that as the end. Or he regret it and wanted to reach for her, so he wished to change the beginning"

"Maybe that is also related to the fact that he can't see the future and past without the spell… Because that count as the time when he was in ignorance" Kaguya shook her head before she sighed and said " I can guess that maybe his Beast's meaning is in this category"

Misaka wanted to say something, but then the atmosphere in the guild exploded.

"I heard enough! If you want to join our team, then you need to pass this test" Kazuma heard Megumin's story before he took DIO's sword and pointed at her.

"This is?! DIO's sword! The cursed sword that was forged in the pits of hell and brought nightmares to demons!! Are you perhaps, DIO!!??" Megumin said with stars in her eyes as it made Kazuma lose all his motivation to recruit her.

"You know what? I give up…" Kazuma wanted to sit down again, but the adventures around didn't let him.

"Hey, Dio, join us!" an adventurer asked Kazuma to join the party with them.

"No, I'm good" Kazuma said, but they didn't let him.

"C'mon, it's on us. Dio! Dio!" The adventurers around started chanting Dio's name as they offered beer to Kazuma.

"....." Kazuma stood there without a word as he didn't know what the point was anymore.

"I give up" Kazuma picked a beer before he raised his sword and said " KONO DIO DA!!!"

"WRYYYYYYY!!!!" DIO's sword also screamed as all the adventurers were cheering "OOOOHHHHHHH!!!"

Kaguya saw this as she covered her mouth with her sleeve and said " Hisss, they broke him"

"But didn't he say that he forgot and he's happy now" Misaka said quickly as she didn't know she was in this rush.

Kaguya was surprised, but then, she smiled kindly before saying " He got you again, huh. We can't forget about those things, Misaka. We learn to live on, but never forget"

"Also, how can you be truly happy if you were never sad once?" Kaguya looked at Mudkip, who finished the popcorn before smiling bitterly and saying " I guess we're both with a power that reminds us of something, huh?"

"I'll join! All hail, DIO!!!" Kaguya joined the party as the adventurers were hailing Dio for some reason.

Misaka was left alone at the table as she was thinking about Kaguya words {Remind you of something?... Eh?!}

Misaka remembered Kaguya's story that she told her when they were hunting frogs. The Hourai Elixir made by Kaguya's ability of eternity is something that makes the consumer have a 'body that rejects all change', but that was illegal and she was exiled from the moon because they couldn't execute her.

Kaguya's eternity brought her a lot of pain and became a power that reminds her of pain and regrets. Like Leo and his flaws.

"....." Misaka looked at Kaguya who was smiling while partying as she could say anything. That smug smile of Kaguya became so different now.

"Hey, what with that face" Suddenly, Misaka's shoulder was tapped as she saw Leone looking at her with a smile.

"You have a very interesting talk, but no one wants to see you having such a face, right?" Leone messed Misaka's hair before she gave her a beer and said " Do you want some?"

"No, I'm still a minor!" Misaka refused immediately, which made Leone sigh before she said " You're no fun at all"

"..." Misaka took a deep breath because of Leone's attitude, but then, Leone grabbed her hand.

"If you don't want to drink, then at least join the party!" Leone dragged Misaka to the party.

Misaka sighed again while looking at the chaos around before she looked at Kaguya shooting water with Mudkip on DIO(Kazuma). This made her smile before joining the chaos.

Another day passed in Axel, as the guild was in chaos and earthquakes were still appearing because of Whitebeard and the frogs.